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  • A Fragile Inheritance

    Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

    by Saloni Mathur ...
    In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying

    The Museum in South Asia

    Edited by Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh ...
    Series series Visual and Media Histories
    This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora

    by Saloni Mathur ...

    $20.99 USD

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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    by James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Home in the World

    A Memoir

    by Amartya Sen ...
    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    by Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s essential ... Read more

    $2.55 USD

  • Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

    A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

    by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay ...
    This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial ... Read more

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  • Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

    Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Museum on the Roof of the World

    Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

    by Clare E. Harris ...
    For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for ... Read more

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  • Henry Irwin and the Indo Saracenic Movement Reconsidered

    by Pradip Kumar Das ...
    The book focuses on Henry Irwin, a man who began his life in India as a PWD engineer and subsequently rose to the position of consulting architect to the government of Madras succeeding Robert Fellowes Chisholm, his predecessor in that office. Many of Irwins creations continue to dominate the Madras skyline and are held in high esteem by local denizens. However, the blatant hybridity of some of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Travels to Europe

    Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives, 1870-1910

    by Simonti Sen ...
    Series series New Perspectives in South Asian History
    This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power - it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to produce such texts. An analysis of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cultural Heritage Ethics

    Between Theory and Practice

    by Constantine Sandis ...
    Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus